Workshops at Gindabara
Eco Printing
Art. Nature. Magic. Alchemy.
About the Eco Printing Workshop
These workshops are a light hearted and magical afternoon of exploration in eco printing where we will be extracting the natural tannins from plants through a process that creates prints onto a medium (in this case, paper).
You will leave with 3–5 beautiful eco prints on cotton rag watercolour paper — and a smile on your face.
Covid safe
This workshop is held outside and participants practice social distancing.
Who is this workshop for?
People interested in a unique creative experience.
Anyone staying at Gindabara.
Visitors to the island.
Please note that no experience is required.
Workshop details
Participant number required for each workshop: 5–15 people
Time required: 3–4 hours
Cost: $95/person — all materials are provided. Morning or afternoon tea provided.
How to book: Contact the workshop facilitator, Lianne Counsell on 0418 452 032. You’ll discuss a suitable date and organise a 20% deposit. Book a minimum 7 days prior to your workshop date.
Workshop photo gallery
When you register to attend an eco printing workshop, all the materials you see below are provided.
The workshop provides a creative experience in nature, art, and eco printing for children and adults.
Selection and placement of flowers and leaves onto paper is part of the creative eco printing process.
Rolling and scrolling the paper with the flowers and leaves in place is next part of the magical process.
Your work is immersed into large pots of boiling water to draw out the tannins, the natural colours, from the leaves and flowers. The alchemy begins.
Real satisfaction. Workshop participants with their unique, beautiful art work drying in the sun.
How beautiful! This example illustrates what you could create by attending the Eco Printing Workshop.
Lianne Counsell, your eco printing expert and workshop facilitator.
Lianne Counsell
BA Contemporary Arts, Grad Dip Ed, Dip Trans Art Therapies, Cert IV TAE
Lianne is a wellness art and design educator with over 30 years experience in the field. She has facilitated, mentored and supported people of all abilities to creatively express themselves.
Lianne has her own practise that constantly demands she reinvent herself and therefore has produced works across a multitude of disciplines including the performing arts, mosaics, mixed media, printmaking, sculpture to name a few.
Lianne loves the magic in art making and draws inspiration from the idea that we collaborate with something higher than ourselves and sometimes we just need to get out of our own way.
Recognising our place in the nature of things, she is deeply interested in helping people tend to the affairs of their own hearts and connect with the earth that so generously supports us.
Book or make enquiries
Phone 0418 452 032